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by the country-people, they will best serve the same purpose for 
the local botanist or horticulturalist, especially in the absence of 
any other more fixed or constant characters. 
Subvar. I. nephrosperma j seeds oblong-reniform compressed 
rounded at each end. 
A. unicolor ; seeds self-coloured uniform. — P. vulgaris A, Savi, 
DC. 1. c. 
1. Bluish- or raven-black. Feijao roxo ; F. preto. 
2. Atropurpureous or dark rich purplish liver-brown. * FI. pale 
ochraceous. F. de pobre. 
3. Violet or bluish passing into grey and brown. FI. purple. 
F. azul. 
4. Liver-brown, often faintly mottled with dark brown = a. 
n. a. 3. 
5. Flesh-colour passing into brown. FI. purple. 
6. Dove-colour passing into fawn or pale brown, with a ful- 
vous (orange-tawny) ring round the liilum. F. Coelho. 
7. Fulvous or tawny-yellow with an atropurpureous ring 
roimd the liilum. F. amarello. Cf. a. II. A. 2. 
8. Pure white. FI. white. — P. compressus (3. Savi, DC. 1. c. 
B. fasciata ; seeds with dark interrupted longitudinal stripes 
or streaks. — P. vulgaris B. Savi, DC. 1. c. 
1. Violet or dark purplish-blue with obscure black streaks. 
FI. pale purple or flesh-colour. 
2. Purple passing into flesh-colour and gilvous or fulvous, 
with red streaks and specks. FI. pale purple. 
3. Gilvous flesh-colour, with liver-coloured streaks. FI. pale 
purple or flesh-colour. 
4. Flesh-colour passing into brown, with black streaks or 
stripes. FI. purple. 
5. Lilac-grey (i. e. cream- or dove-colour thickly and minutely 
sand-speckled with v. -purple), with black streaks. 
6. Cream-colour, with black streaks. F. rajado. — a) without 
black specks ; b) with black specks, F. letra. 
7. Cream-colour, with v. -purple streaks and specks. F. ra- 
jado ; F. do Seixal. Blends into I. C. 3. b. 
8. Dove-colour, with olive streaks. F. rajado. Cf. a. II. B. 2. 
9. Turgid ; red with orange-tawny streaks. 
